Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-06-26
FRESH FOREIGN FACTS
SYMPATHY FOR rHR HEIRRss.
The Soioun at Dover Of the Countess Gmpos
and Her Lover.
LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER SclIDAL.
A Bloody Riot Between English Gentry and
Farmers

LONDON, June 26-The sojourn Ut Do
yer Of the clipping heiress Mademoiselle tho
Countess Mercedes Csmpos and her adven-
turer lover is attracting much attention,
and her repeated futile efforts to marry the
man with whom she has cast her lot excites
considerable sympathy among those with
whom romantic escapades find favor. This
particular affair, like all others Of is claa,
possesses phases Of absurdity and aspects Of
real patbos. In most respects, It's true, Il
differs very little from the ordinary elope-
ment Of the heiress and fortune hunter,
there being nothing not disgustingly
commonplace in the fact that q beau
tiful and wealthy woman has run
away with n man bankrupt In pock-
ct and character, wholly incapable Of
supporting her, and determinedly aveue
to maintaining himself. Neither Is there
anything unprecedented in the fact that
the woman's relatives are excessively 90
~licitous for her welfare and the custody Of
the money they see drifting farther and
farther ont Of their reach through the in
dependent action Of its owner. or the spec
tacle Of her penniless companion clinging
tenaciously to the fortune Of his mistress
and e~ndeayoring to make secure his claim
to its ownership through the medium Of
priest and ring. But there is In the affair
something which appeals to the lover Of
fair play ~ almost oondoning the young
woman's offense and exalting the youth
whose victim she Is 10 the plane
Of an honorable man. From what
has transpired through the action OF
the agent of the Campos family and In
other ways since the arrival Of Mile. ,Cam-
pos at Dover, the fact has been established
beyond reasonable doubt that the young
woman's flight from Paris was the result
ola series OF prosecutions Mt the hands Of
her relatives proceeding from = mercen-
airy motive, and contemplating the ultimate
absorption Of her fortune. Not 70 miuce
words, bat to call u spade q spade, the
lady by placing herself under the doubt
full protection of Mielvaeue, alias, Gar
boeuf, removed herself, temporarily, al
least, from the power of rs precious . set Of
harpies M ever preyed upon humanity and
possibly escaped the horrors of . luustic
asylum, 10 which she would no doubt
have been consigned by the grief stricken
circle who deplore her nshness, but tear
fully express their willingness to forgive
her and take her once more 10 their hearts.
The impression is fast obtaining ut Dover
that the young woman Is deserving morn
Of sympathy than Of censnre, aud Of the
former she is receiving an abundance. Al
10 the wisdom Of her determination 70
marry Mielvague, the prepondemnce Of
the advice prigmatical : persons would
offer her, II they could get the chance,
would be n decidedly negative character,
but from all thatis known Of her experience
with her dear relatives, her escape from
the frying pan into the fire, though IL lie,
is regarded as providential.
A BLOODY RI0r.
At the ceremony Of "Riding the Bound.
aries" to-day, on the border Of Wcstmore-
land and York counties, the gentry Of both
counties came 70 blows. As the iandowp-
ers Of Westmoreland were riding along
beating the boundary. they encountered
the Yorkshire people doing the same. A
dispute arose regarding the defining Of
certain parts. Hot words followed and
soon the sticks with which they had been
marking the boundaries were turned
against each other, and q bloody fight was
the result They continued 10 fight until
o local magistrate was severely injured.
A DowA0ER's Ill LUCK.
The Standard to-day publishes The fol-
lowing story: "Dowsger Lady Msux, while
leaving Paris, met n q On their auiv-
al in London they went 10 the First Avenue
Hotel at Holborn. Thence they removed
To the Midland Hotel, where the man en-
gagged the apartments, taking Q separate
room for himself. He decamped from this
hotel, taking with him jewels worth $500
pounds belonging TO the lady. No trace
Of the man can be found"
KING LEOPOLD LAYS A coRSER+r0NE,
King Leopold. OF Belgium, visited tho
East London Children's Hospital to-day,
and had shown 10 him o baby fifteen days
old and weighing but two pounds. The
King afterwards visited the Peoples Pal
ace, recently inaugurated by thu Queen.
He was much impressed by Il, and said bs
should urge all cities 70. copy London in
founding such establishments for the peo-
pie. Subsequently His Majesty laid ths
corner stone of the library building to be
attached TO the Peoples Palace.
cARSDoIE on THE TARIvY.
Mr.. Carnegie, in an interview NJ wsiver-
hampton yesterday, said that the Canadian
Governments statement that heavy duties
on metal would increase British and de-
crease American trade was merely 10 gull
British ironmasters. The protested rsduc-
tons announced fran Ottawa had tbs same
subject Canada, he said, fully intended
20 have her Own iron and steel maBufhctur-
en and nothing would stop her, and sbs
would rather have them established By
English than American capital.
GRACE HAwTHoRsE's EsGA0KNKHfA
Grace Hawthorne, the American sstssaA
will appear In Sardou's MASTERPIECES, The
odora," In the autumn season. Beeipning
on the 18th Of next month she viii enter
into an engagement nc the Princes Tbeatss,
Oxford street, 10 play Shadows Of Great
City"
oEspTA MAKING SLOW PRo0kuR
The Genesta, which h leading In ths
jubilee yacht race, passed Piyaouth this
morning She was making bot SLOW pro-
gress. She was ~contending against . desd
head wind Ands stsong tide.
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